Word: taboo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Liquor sales are highly profitable. To squeeze the most from each bottle, Holiday Inn bartenders are enjoined from giving freebies to customers, no matter how much they spend. Another taboo: pouring liquor directly into a mixed drink without using a 1¼-oz. shot glass. Thus the bartender must be able to show in his receipts the equivalent of the price of 20.5 drinks for each fifth bottle of liquor sold. Most distillers offer cut-rate prices to get their brands into hotels and motels, but Holiday Inns goes one better: it buys bourbon and Scotch in bulk from Schenley...
Premarital sex is taboo in China, and the expression of love and affection is extremely restrained. You rarely see boys and girls together, although there were a few couples strolling on Chung-shan Road along the Whangpoo River in Shanghai. Boy meets girl at school or on the job, or at a people's culture palace. All the Chinese men I met said that that was where they had met their wives. They laughed when I asked them if they ever said "I love you" to their wives. "That is not necessary," answered the editor of a Shanghai newspaper...
What seems to make Archie so risque is his hitherto taboo bigotry and racism. He rails against coons and Polacks, drunken Irishmen and greedy Jews. (All of which leaves us wondering about his own ethnic background.) He also deals with other burning issues of the day--liberation for the women, and even for the gays. This supposed social relevance is what makes Archie and Edith so popular...
...complicity with evil he probes in The Shop on Main Street. Kadar has moved beyond a smoothly delineated story to create a disturbing aura of the off-balance and indefinite. The moral wrong against the Jews depicted in the older film may be more immediately dramatic, but the morally taboo of Adrift is ultimately more interesting. Kadar resolves none of the dilemmas that his movie raises; he merely suggests the universality and complexity of its problems. Uncertainty is at the film's center. Yanos questions himself so completely that he becomes unsure of the existence of the girl...
...York City, the Knapp Commission exposed mostly "clean" graft-that is, the free meals, liquor and tips that are handed out by businessmen and gamblers as a matter of routine. Last week the commission moved on to "dirty" graft-the payoffs from narcotics pushers that used to be considered taboo even by cops on the take. A mixed media presentation of film, tapes and testimony showed that far too many cops are now as willing to take dirty money as clean...